Leeds & Yorkshire
Business valuation in Leeds
Independent, written valuations for Leeds business owners and their advisers. Fixed fee from £495, report delivered in three working days. We don't sell businesses and we don't do accounts — so the figure is not written to win anything else.
Independent.We don't sell businesses. No success fee.
- 1,000+ UK business valuations
- 17 years of brokering & valuing experience
- Fixed fee from £495 — no hourly billing
- Report delivered in 3 working days
Fixed fee from £495
Written report in 3 working days. Quote back within the hour, no obligation.
1,000+ UK valuations completed. We don't sell businesses, so there's no incentive to move the figure.
Covering Leeds, West Yorkshire and the wider Yorkshire region
Leeds is the largest financial and professional services centre outside London, with a strong digital and healthcare technology base and a substantial manufacturing hinterland across West and South Yorkshire. Corporate finance activity here is active, so owners are frequently approached before they have any independent view of value.
The work is delivered remotely from Bristol, working from your accounts and management information, so there is no site visit to arrange and location never delays the report. We work with owners across Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate, York, Sheffield and Hull, alongside their accountants and solicitors.
An advisory-heavy market, and what that does to owners
Leeds has a denser concentration of corporate finance advisers, debt funds and deal lawyers than anywhere else in the North. That is good for liquidity — businesses here get sold — but it also means the first number an owner hears usually comes from someone with a mandate to win or a deal to do.
We are not in that market. We do not sell businesses, we take no success fee and we have no onward interest in whether you transact. The report is written so that a corporate finance adviser, a buyer's accountant or a court can test the workings, which is precisely what a marketing valuation is not designed to withstand.
Professional services value on retention, not headcount
Much of the Leeds business base is people-led: accountancy practices, consultancies, insurance and financial advice firms, recruitment businesses and agencies. In every one of them the valuation turns on how much of the income survives the owner's departure.
Practically, that means we look at fee retention history, the split between recurring and one-off income, how client relationships are held across the team, and whether key staff are tied in. A practice with a stable recurring fee base and second-tier management is valued in a different range from a firm of identical turnover where the principal holds the client list.
Work in progress and lock-up matter as well. A firm carrying long debtor days is converting less of its reported profit into cash, and a buyer funds that difference on day one.
Yorkshire manufacturing and the asset cross-check
Across Bradford, Wakefield, Sheffield and Hull the manufacturing base is substantial, and those valuations need a second leg. We value the trade on normalised earnings, then cross-check against net assets, because plant-heavy businesses can be worth more on their asset position than on a multiple of a modest profit.
Where premises are owned personally by the shareholders, the rent charged to the company is rebased to market before earnings mean anything. Where the freehold sits in the company, trading value and property value are reported separately.
What moves the figure for a Leeds business
Fee retention and recurring income
In professional services this is the main determinant of the multiple. Predictable annual fees are worth far more than the same revenue won project by project.
Whether the clients are yours or the firm's
Relationships held solely by the principal reduce value, because the buyer has to price the risk they leave with you.
Second-tier management
A team that can run the business without the owner supports the top of a range and shortens the earn-out a buyer will ask for.
Lock-up and cash conversion
Long debtor days and heavy work in progress reduce what a buyer will pay, even where the profit line is healthy.
An illustrative Leeds example
A fictional Leeds B2B consultancy, included to show how the figure is built rather than to suggest what any real business is worth.
Illustrative and fictional. Your own figure depends on your accounts, your client base and your buyer pool.
What you get
- A bespoke written valuation report, not a template or a calculator output.
- Normalised earnings, the multiple evidenced against comparable transactions, and a cross-check on an asset or cash-flow basis.
- Every assumption stated, so the figure can be tested by a buyer, a solicitor, a funder or HMRC.
- Fixed fee from £495, agreed before any work begins. Three working days from receiving your figures.
Reports are used for sale preparation, purchases, management buyouts, shareholder disputes, divorce proceedings, probate and HMRC submissions.
Sectors we're asked about in Leeds
- B2B and professional services valuations
- Software and SaaS valuations
- Recruitment agency valuations
- Manufacturing valuations
- Accountancy practice valuations
Not listed? See all the sectors we value — the method is the same whatever you do.
Common questions from Leeds owners
How do I get my Leeds business valued?
Send your last one to three years of accounts, your latest management figures and a short briefing on the business. We agree a fixed fee first, then return a bespoke written valuation report within three working days. The work is done from your figures, so there is no site visit to arrange anywhere in Yorkshire.
What does a business valuation cost in Leeds?
A straightforward sale or buy-side valuation is a fixed fee from £495, agreed in writing before any work starts. Divorce, EMI, start-up and shareholder-dispute valuations involve more work and evidence, so they are quoted individually — always as a fixed fee.
I've had an approach from a corporate finance house. What should I do first?
Get your own figure before you respond in any detail. Leeds has an unusually active corporate finance community, and approaches are frequently made to owners who have never had an independent valuation. Knowing your normalised earnings and the evidence behind a defensible multiple changes the entire shape of that first conversation.
Do you work with Yorkshire accountants and solicitors?
Regularly, including on share transfers, partner buy-ins, matrimonial matters and HMRC submissions. We do not sell businesses and do not do accounts work, so there is no conflict with a client's existing advisers.
Want the number for your Leeds business?
Tell us the sector and rough turnover and we'll come back with a fixed fee and a timescale.
Fixed fee from £495
Written report in 3 working days. Quote back within the hour, no obligation.
1,000+ UK valuations completed. We don't sell businesses, so there's no incentive to move the figure.
Request a Leeds business valuation.
An independent, fully evidenced figure in three working days. Fixed fee from £495.
Independent.We don't sell businesses. No success fee.
- 1,000+ UK business valuations
- 17 years of brokering & valuing experience
- Fixed fee from £495 — no hourly billing
- Report delivered in 3 working days